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After a long gap I have had 3 Photograph of the Day awards in quick succession.  This image taken the same day as “No Place to Sit” was too busy in colour so I converted in to Black and White and added a subtle split tone effect, to lift it slightly.

Big Al Says:

The stark contrasts in Jane’s POTD add to the sense of abandonment of the boats and the fishing tackle. The two foreground stacks form a good diagonal that give depth to the image.

I was delighted to receive Photograph of the Day for this image taken down on Beer Beach in Devon.  Taken back at the end of October it was pretty cold and grey,  but the four empty deck chairs, sat on the beach seemed to echo the end of autumn.

Big Al Says:

Jane’s POTD works so well through being semi-desaturated. With the sepia tones and the blues, the whole image has that cold feel to it.

After our trip to Tunisia in February, I have finally finished my book of the journey.  After seven hectic days,  in weather which ran from pleasantly warm to snowing,  we saw far more of life in Tunisia, than many who go to Hammamet to lie on the Beach.

See More of our Tunisian Adventure Book

It’s been a good while since I last got a Photograph of the Day at the Photography Cafe,  but I was delighted to get one today with an image titled “Happiness is a Lollipop”, from our visit to Tunisia last week.

We visited a Troglodyte house in Matmata, where a woman lives with her 5 children. The house has some electricity via a solar panel, with a small TV in one of the rooms off the central courtyard and a piped water supply to the front of the building. The youngest of the children grabbed the bag of lollipops our guide brought and was working his way through them, even though I suspect he was supposed to be sharing them.

Jane’s POTD is like a quick trip to the location. In one image we have all the elements that describe living at that location. By having the subject so strongly off-centre we become more focussed on the empty walls and are given a sense of how little there is within the home.